From Daiwei Blog:
China Business Post released a list last week ranking China’s authors by income.
From the start it was a coarse measurement – number of books in print over the last decade multiplied by the list price, and then adjusted for a standard 10% royalty. The report then notes that 10% is just an average value used purely for convenience; royalties typically range from 8% to 12%. And print runs were taken from the books’ copyright pages, which often give a rather broad range, or from the publishers themselves, who have been known to manipulate numbers.
The list (with a recent or representative work and income in yuan):[Full Text]
